Word: quittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astonishing political mission, Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd and Nebraska's Arthur L. Miller last week tracked down Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. They had an urgent message: G.O.P. farm state Congressmen had just convened in emergency caucus and decided that either Benson must quit his job or 20 to. 25 members of the caucus would be defeated this fall as part of the mounting farm protest against Benson's policies...
...school-board member called on Armstrong Baskin, told him that his wife should resign, or be fired. A few days later, Superintendent Threatte, Board Chairman Wallace Thigpen and Member John Crum visited Teacher Baskin herself. Confronted by the awesome threesome of Threatte, Thigpen and Crum, she decided to quit...
...curious case faced the four members of the King's College matriculation board of Britain's University of Durham. The applicant before them had quit school at twelve-and he was now all of 68. Nonetheless, he wanted desperately to enter the university as an ordinary undergraduate. Had he been anyone less persuasive than ruddy-faced John McNair, the board might not even have bothered to consider...
...satisfaction: "I can only be excited by a man who despises me." All the pros were anxious and depressed; no fewer than 15 had tried suicide, many of them several times; one succeeded on the sixth try. Of the six he analyzed, Dr. Greenwald could report proudly that five quit the racket (though that was not their aim in seeking therapy, but relief from anxiety and depression). Some got married, others went into legitimate businesses...
Angels Anonymous. The idea for KPFA began in 1946 when the late Louis Hill, fed up with imitative commercial broadcasting, quit his job as White House and Senate correspondent for WINX in Washington. D.C. After settling down in San Francisco, he collected a group of friends, started raising money for a station that would be supported not by commercials but by listener subscription. By 1949 Hill had enough money to set up a studio near the Berkeley campus of the University of California, but after 15 months on the air he had so few subscribers that he had to close...